Not a good game.
The worst thing about this game is the controls. Kirby and his animal friends control extremely clunky and slow. Oftentimes when I stopped pressing a direction, Kirby kept going for a short while which is annoying. Moving a very short distance is also hard to do because of this. The momentum in this game is just weird and hard to get used to. Like, losing all momentum when spitting after hovering is annoying and so is all the sand that makes you jump very low and slows you down. The camera is pretty annoying too. It just does not catch up to Kirby sometimes, especially when turning around.
The powers aren’t great either. There’s only eight copy abilities but combined with all the animal friends the number of unique attacks is like 56. However, the grand majority of them are either bad and/or extremely niche. As a result, most power/animal combinations aren’t a lot of fun to use. Aesthetically, they do have a lot of charm though with a lot of silly attacks like Coo turning into a feather duster or Chuchu turning into a hot air balloon. My favorite of the animal partners is probably the little green bird (Pitch). He had some cool attacks. Rick is a cool guy too. Overall, the animal partners are adorable and have a lot of charm.
I wasn’t a big fan of the stages either. The stages were bland and uninspired in my opinion. It also didn’t help that I didn’t really like the overall aesthetic of this game. While I understood what they were going for with the crayon drawing art style, I found it looked washed out.
I didn’t care for the Heart Stars either. Many of them were just some dumb minigames, while others were: “I hope you brought the correct power bro”. Needless to say, I did not get all of the Heart Stars and as a result I didn’t beat the true final boss. I was just so done with this game after beating Dedede.
The music is pretty catchy though.
The worst thing about this game is the controls. Kirby and his animal friends control extremely clunky and slow. Oftentimes when I stopped pressing a direction, Kirby kept going for a short while which is annoying. Moving a very short distance is also hard to do because of this. The momentum in this game is just weird and hard to get used to. Like, losing all momentum when spitting after hovering is annoying and so is all the sand that makes you jump very low and slows you down. The camera is pretty annoying too. It just does not catch up to Kirby sometimes, especially when turning around.
The powers aren’t great either. There’s only eight copy abilities but combined with all the animal friends the number of unique attacks is like 56. However, the grand majority of them are either bad and/or extremely niche. As a result, most power/animal combinations aren’t a lot of fun to use. Aesthetically, they do have a lot of charm though with a lot of silly attacks like Coo turning into a feather duster or Chuchu turning into a hot air balloon. My favorite of the animal partners is probably the little green bird (Pitch). He had some cool attacks. Rick is a cool guy too. Overall, the animal partners are adorable and have a lot of charm.
I wasn’t a big fan of the stages either. The stages were bland and uninspired in my opinion. It also didn’t help that I didn’t really like the overall aesthetic of this game. While I understood what they were going for with the crayon drawing art style, I found it looked washed out.
I didn’t care for the Heart Stars either. Many of them were just some dumb minigames, while others were: “I hope you brought the correct power bro”. Needless to say, I did not get all of the Heart Stars and as a result I didn’t beat the true final boss. I was just so done with this game after beating Dedede.
The music is pretty catchy though.